[widebody911]

I've been in IT for 30 years (get off my lawn!), so take what I say with a grain of salt. I started my professional career coding in COBOL, C/C++ and Assembler (x86 and M88k)

Security is hot - and always will be - and a lot of other guys are headed that direction. "Cloud" is also really hot, but again, a lot of people are getting on that bandwagon too.

The problem with spending your energy (and money!) on certs is you're hitching yourself to someone else's wagon - you live or die by the market share of that platform.

Most of the "certified in everything" people I've known can't function outside of a particular vendor's walled garden.

The most successful IT guys I know have diverse backgrounds and don't have certs in anything; they've learned in the trenches to be able to be competent in a wide variety of disciplines.